This 6-legged robot is remote controlled and the central area can be fitted with several different projectile-shooting modules. Now do I have your attention? Good. The two shown here can fire discs or ping pong balls at varying angles, achieving great distances. It looks like there is also a dart module that isn’t talked about.

That’s cool all by itself, but he has also designed two types of armor that can be clipped on to the robot. The first is to change the color scheme, the second is for battles with other robots, and when it gets hit, it flies off. This will make for some cool robot battles for sure.

You can give Jamie suggestions for a name on YouTube. You could win a free robot if he picks your name.

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No info yet on a price or release date, but perhaps before the end of the year you will be dancing together.

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They were designed by Randy Padama (aka randyfivesix) and are ready for you to download and assemble. Display them on your desk, or play with them like action figures and make them fight. This gives you the opportunity to act out the crossover event that never was, but should have been. The Voltron and Fallout crossover that would have either been amazing or totally sucked.

The Fallout guy is especially neat since he has a removable paper helmet. If you have the spare time and want to make something cool, you can download them here. There’s also a TRON guy, but he’s actually the least interesting of the bunch, but maybe that’s just my taste.

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Diehard Doctor Who fans would recognize the Cybermat immediately, and would be super excited to hear that the Bump-N-Go Cybermat is available this Christmas season! For $45, you get the 6 inch-long Cybermat replica that autonomously roams your floors. By autonomously, I mean that every time it smacks its face into something, it turns around. Which, for $45, is probably the best level of autonomous available. Even some small children don’t have that plateau of intelligence! *Small child runs his face into a pole. Small child backs up. Small child runs his face into the pole again. Small child sits down and cries.*

The Bump-N-Go Cybermat is from Series 6 Episode 12 of Doctor Who, and it has some crazy awesome tail swishing action that doesn’t actually affect its movement but does affect its price because it is way cooler when it swishes its tail. Plus, an extra motor is needed, thus the production price is increased. The Bump-N-Go Cybermat is complete with red LEDs on its side, but is incomplete since its mouth is not revealed. You don’t get to see it in the episode, you don’t get to see it in the toy. This is probably just because anything the designers came up with would disappoint – the hype is too much for the Atlas of the Doctor Who World to carry. That’s why said Atlas will hand it off to some unwitting Hercules figure who will end up holding it for a very long time before the unwitting Hercules is able to wit said Atlas back into holding up the world. Couple of screwball knuckleheads – it’s best just to avoid the situation entirely and save ourselves a massive headache.

Like I said, the Bump-N-Go Cybermats are $45 per, and are available from Neatoshop for your buying delight! If you’re looking for more Doctor Who goodness, I’d recommend you check out the Doctor Who Chess Set and the teaser for the new Doctor Who PS3 game.

Really, this is a cool toy for the adults, who will allow the kids to play with it from time-to-time. Sure it looks all clean and awesome now. but once you give it to your little ankle-weight, it will soon be covered in drool and snot, and that beautiful wood will be all dinged and dented up with toothmarks. Kids. This is why we can’t have anything nice.

The $35 plush turret stands 14.5-inches tall. It gets power from three AA batteries and has a glowing red eye. It can talk and has little sayings that are just like what the turrets in the game say. The turret also has motion detection and will utter different phrases depending on what happens.

When it detects motion it says things like “There you are,” Preparing to dispense product”, “Target acquired” and a few others. If you knock the turret over it will say “critical error”, “I don’t hate you”, and a few other things. When the turret doesn’t sense motion for 30 seconds it will say “Are you still there?” How can you resist?

Open up the biggest robot, and you’ll find a smaller one inside, and another, and another. They come in a set of six nesting robot dolls, and would be a great addition to any cubicle toy collection. I don’t know why, but they all sort of remind me of Bender. Maybe they’re his cousins. After all, they do all have shiny metal asses (made out of ABS plastic).

They’re available over on Amazon for just $10 (USD) a set.

The system is in the prototype stage right now and is called Universal Control. The way it works is that your TV or set-top box has to be Internet enabled, so that the BBC can send out synchronized Wi-Fi signals to the miniature Daleks. Their experimentation involved two-foot-tall Daleks, with information encoded into the video of a Doctor Who episode.

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I’m going to assume that their intentions are good and that they just want to make neat toys. At least I hope that the Beeb isn’t planning world domination by putting Daleks in our living rooms. (Un)fortunately, the BBC says it’s not planning on releasing these to the general public anytime soon.

Your kids can flick through the app and when they see something they like they can circle it on the app with a finger for you to check out later. The downside to this app is that it is tied to an online store for shopping. I would rather see it tied to a retail store like Toys R Us or others.

Still the app is cool, it’s a free download, and it will at least give you ideas what to get the kids. I bet most of the stuff available in the app will be things you can find in retail stores too. The cool part about the app is also that you don’t have to worry about losing the catalog or having the dog eat it.

Probably the coolest thing is that the new Bigtrak XTR can even be controlled using your iPad, iPhone or Android device. It can also be controlled from your PC or Mac over Bluetooth. Surprisingly, the iPhone app is already available, long before the actual Bigtrak XTR can be yours.

The XTR has a spacious loading bay which conceals the programming keypad, letting you use it to carry objects around, and deliver them to your friends. It can even detect when a load is added or removed. While the render above shows the XTR carrying a can of Coke, this think will be the perfect beer-bot. It would be really cool if you could control it with Siri, but I don’t know if that’ll be possible.

In addition, the Bigtrak XTR offers several add-ons, including an IR gun, adjustable wireless camera and even a missile launcher you can fire remotely.

There’s no word yet on pricing for the Bigtrak XTR, but Zeon Tech expects to release it sometime in 2012. For more info, be sure to sign up on the Bigtrakisback website to be notified once it’s available. I’m hoping I’ll get a chance to play with one once it’s released. If nothing else, I want to mount a laser pointer on it so I can mess with my cat.

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The two trains are the Gold Express and the Silver Steam. The Gold Express is 40 inches long, 5 inches tall and includes an engine and two passenger carriages. The track is made of transparent plastic. It’s on eBay for $2,000 (USD). The Silver Steam is 44 inches long and 5 inches tall. You get an engine, one passenger carriage and two holiday freight carriages for $3,000 (USD) on eBay.

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The latest HexBug robot looks like a nasty larva, except made out of plastic instead of whatever slimy stuff actual larvae are made of. What makes these things even more creepy is that they have robotic brains inside of them.

The 3.9″ long oversize larva robot slithers around on any smooth surface, with its tail wriggling from side to side. When it sees an object in its way, it automatically changes direction, and keeps on moovin’ and groovin’. Great. This thing is going to be able to avoid my attempts to kill it with Raid. Guess there’s always my shoe.

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These creepy crawlers are great stocking stuffers for kids, assuming they don’t actually leave them in their socks when they put them on. They’re also great for reproducing that scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, where he puts that nasty bug in Chekhov’s ear (that scene is way better in German, BTW). Actually, kids, don’t put these in your ears.

You can grab the HexBug Larva here for $12.99 (USD) each. Just don’t buy me any.

The Max Force Maximizer 60 can fire up to 8 bits of harmless paper ammo between reloads, and can shoot them up to 60 feet away. The moistened paper pellet ammo is designed to break up on impact, so you can see where you hit, but they don’t cause any real damage. Stepping up the rung is the Shadowhawk 100, which looks like a sniper rifle. It’s even got a folding stand and a scope for getting the most accurate shot off. Plus, the Shadowhawk can fire its paper payload at your victims up to 100 feet away.

And if you’d rather go with something a little less intense, you could always go for the Max Force Blow Gun 35, which uses your breath to fire, instead of a spring-loaded firing mechanism. The Blow Gun can only fire 35 feet, but you can probably use it much more stealthily than the Maximizer. I like to think of it like the world’s fanciest spitball cannon. Just don’t suck instead of blow, or else you might end up with a stomach full of paper.

The Maximizer 60 gun will set you back £19.99 (~$32 USD), the Shadowhawk 100 sells for £39.99 (~$64 USD), and the Blow Gun 35 goes for £12.99 (~$21 USD) over at Firebox. Additional ammo pellets sell in packs of 500 for £4.99 (~$8 USD).

Mike Psiaki created this very accurate X-Wing fighter using LEGO bricks, and it looks awesome. I always wonder how exactly the people that build these accurate models of ships do it using only LEGO components. One of the most detailed and accurate parts is the nose of the ship. I wonder how long it took him to figure that part out alone.

The LEGO model apparently even has working landing gear, and the wings can even open and close.

There is even room inside the little cockpit for a minifig Luke, and R2-D2 in the back. What do you think? Is this the best LEGO X-wing you have ever seen?

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When I first saw this Hot Wheels alarm clock, I was all excited that the car actually looped around the track. Unfortunately, it looks like it’s just glued there from the box photo below. If I tried that with a real Hot Wheels set, I’d be disqualified for cheating.

While it really would be better if the car actually did do a 360 every morning, I suppose it might inspire someone to hack their own version that actually does that. For now, Hot Wheels fans can get their hands on this clock over at Toys R Us for $25 (USD).

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TakaraTomy Arts recently showed off Utamin, a strange looking, rotund creature who basically does just one thing – sing. But Utamin doesn’t just vocalize like you’d think – it works like a theramin. You know, those weird otherworldly sounding instruments used in retro science fiction movies? Just like a theramin, Utamin makes sounds when you place your hand near it. It doesn’t sound or look as cute as an actual Mogwai, but I’ve been having a hard time finding any old Chinese antique dealers to sell me one of them ever since a certain incident back in the 1980s.

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As you can see in the video above, Utamin offers three different song modes: playing “familiar” pre-programmed tunes, “Nori-Nori” rhythm mode, and another mode where you can play any note in the musical scale. I can’t wait for the YouTube vids of people playing the Super Mario Bros. or Star Trek theme on this thing. Two Utamins can also communicate via infrared signals, and sing a little duet.

Utamin will be available in Japan later this month, and sells for ¥3,990 (appx. $51 USD). No word on when you’ll be able to get one here in the states, but I’m sure one of the various gadget importers will eventually bring these creatures across the Pacific. No matter what though, don’t get them wet on the way over.

(UPDATE: Looks like you can order Utamin from Strapya World already.)

The controls are in the cockpit. You get some buttons on two joysticks that activate the arms to land all of those punches. They are good for up to 5 hours of fighting and driving thanks to rechargeable 12-volt batteries built-in. If you have a spare $17,000(USD) you can buy them from Hammacher Schlemmer.

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Measuring in over 35 inches long, and weighing about 28 pounds, the Baja 5SC R/C truck is 1/5th of the size of an actual off-road truck, and can achieve speeds of 40 mph or more.

Just like a real truck, it runs on a gasoline engine, and has a real metal transmission, clutch, suspension system,  and disc brakes. Heck, it’s really like owning a truck that’s been through the shrinker ray.

About the only difference between this thing and a real truck is that the Baja 5SC is a 2-wheel-drive vehicle, not a 4WD. Oh, and you can’t fit inside of it.

The Baja 5SC can run for as long as 45 minutes on a single fill-up of gas, and is available factory-assembled, or in kit form. You can find out more about it over at HPI Racing. The fully-assembled version will set you back around $1279, while the kit version sells for about $1159, including the engine. I found them over at A Main Hobbies, but HPI lists a number of retailers too.

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[Thanks for the tip, Dwayne!]

The iModela costs about $1,000(USD), definitely not a kid-friendly price. For that price, you get a device that is nice and compact for your computer desk and uses a USB connection to access the associated software for the 3D models you want to make. Basically, it allows you to make your own action figures, milling them from plastic, wax, balsa wood, or foam.

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After you make a figure, you can then paint the details on. As you can see from the video, it’s not the speediest process, and in a few years we will probably have a machine that can create fully painted figures in under a minute. For now, this is still a pretty sweet toy-making machine.

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We first told you about the Hot Wheels Video Racer back in January, and it’s now available for purchase. The camera car is a little larger than a normal Hot Wheels car, but has a camera inside to record the racing action the kids get up to. The car has 12 minutes of integrated memory and a little LCD screen on the bottom to view the video. The video can also be shot out to a computer for editing and storage. No word on video resolution, but it does capture at 30fps.

The car comes with special editing software that can add music, scene transitions, and special effects. The car sells for $59.99 (USD) and comes with a mount system that allows the car to be hooked to a bike or other device too. You can purchase the Hot Wheels Video Racer now over at Mattel’s shop.